Glazed Coffee Cake Muffins

A soft and tender muffin topped with a crunchy, buttery streusel and sweet vanilla glaze. All the best things about coffee cake in muffin form. These glazed coffee cake muffins are perfect for a lazy Sunday brunch or a weekday breakfast on the go.

I’m finding it reealllly hard to believe that this week marks the beginning of August. Thankfully we have plenty of summering left to do but I’d be lying if I said my mind wasn’t already fast-forwarding to fall which is just around the corner. At the end of this month I’ll be moving my oldest daughter into her college dorm and sending her off to begin a new adventure of her own. It’s going to be an emotional and tearful good bye. One I can’t really wrap my head around just yet.

I honestly cannot imagine leaving my first born half way across the country and flying back home all that way without her by my side. So for now let’s just hit the pause button on that thought. Makes me teary just thinking about it.

After this summer, the new school year will bring with it a brand new era for our little party of five. It will be the first September in a long, long time that I’m not up at dawn making my girl her favorite Belgian waffles, pancakes hot from the griddle or warm cinnamon sugar donuts. I’ll still be here doing the same for my younger two daughters who I’m certain will be more than happy to gobble up the extras. Today’s post is for my baby girl, who, in the blink of an eye is suddenly all grown up.

I know it sounds so cliche, but it literally seems like just yesterday I was dropping her off at her first day of kindergarten. She cried. I cried. I hugged her tight when I picked her up at the end of the day, only to do it all over again the next. And then day by day, week by week, the tears stopped and we grew accustomed to the new routine. Our new normal.

Sending her off to college will likely feel just the same but on a much grander scale. Instead of being just few miles away for a few hours a day, she’ll be thousands of miles from home. And boy, am I ever going to miss her. She is a ray of sunshine. A bright light in the day and always a joy to be around. We share the same sweet tooth and I can always count on her to order two desserts with me so we can share. She’s my extra-streusel-loving-mini-me.

These muffins are one of her favorites. Coffee Cake Muffins with extra streusel. Glazed of course. Just the way she likes them. I’ll grab any chance to pass along a little love to my girl in the form of extra streusel.

Honestly, I wasn’t a huge muffin fan until I started making my own when my girls were little and breakfast on the go became a real necessity. Store-bought muffins are always too big, too dry, too loaded with mystery ingredients to make them edible for a few more days. Homemade muffins are where it’s at. These muffins are soft and tender with the most perfect, crumbly texture that is incredibly moist.

They are heavenly fresh from the oven and make for the most delightful breakfast at the ready or a mid-day snack with a warm beverage on a crisp, fall day. Perfect for moms to chase after their teenagers with as they race off to school in a hurry. But the best part about these Glazed Coffee Cake Muffins??

Yep, you guessed it! That streusel topping. {duh}

When it comes to muffins, I’m all about the muffin tops. Raise your hand reeaalll high if you’re with me. You’ll be happy to know that these golden brown beauties check all the boxes. Buttery, crunchy, perfectly sweet and just all around crazy delicious. Your taste buds will be so happy to savor every bite of these fluffy glazed coffee cake muffins.

I mean….just look at that golden brown buttery crumb topping. I promise you these muffins are worth waking up for. And let’s not forget about the glaze. Not optional in my book. It catapults these sweet little muffins straight to almost-too-good-to-be-true status.

My daughter Avery loves these muffins just as much as I do. We share a love of all the crunchy, buttery things and both of us would be happy to make an entire dessert out of the little crumbly bits that live on top of these muffins. It’s the same delicious kind of streusel you find on top of fruit crisps and it’s seriously scrumptious.

Speaking of dessert, these Glazed Coffee Cake Muffins would be delicious with a scoop of vanilla or cinnamon ice cream for a little after dinner treat. This is definitely one of these recipes you can file away under “breakfast that doubles as dessert”. Now that’s my kind of muffin!

I’m going to have to find a way to ship off a batch of these muffins to my girl this fall. With extra streusel of course to show just how much I care. I juuuust might start crying again so I’m going to sign off for now. Make these muffins bakers. They should be at the top of your list for #muffinmondays which is totally a thing if you ask me. And they keep well so I highly recommend you bake an extra batch to stash in the freezer for busy mornings on the go.

Be sure to check out my post for Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Chia Muffins which comes with a helpful list of pro tips to bake perfectly domed muffins every time. Because flat, deflated muffins are kinda sad. Not as sad as a me sending my first born off to college.

But still. Sad.

If you make these Glazed Coffee Cake Muffins or any other recipe from the blog, be sure to tag @brownedbutterblondie on Instagram. I love to see what you’re baking up in your kitchens! I’ll meet you back here next time with another ice cream cookie sandwich recipe as we continue our month long celebration of my favorite summertime frozen treats.

Until then, happy baking!

If you like these Glazed Coffee Cake Muffins, you will also love:

Healthy{ish} Carrot Cake Muffins

Pumpkin Chocolate Swirl Muffins

Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Chia Muffins

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